St. Paul Colleges Foundation Inc.

Samput Paniqui, Tarlac

Child and Adolescent Learners and Learning Principles

Unit Test

Name:___________________________________ Score:_________________
Course:__________________________________ Date:__________________

GENERAL DIRECTION:
 Write your NAME, GRADE, SECTION, and your PERMIT NO. on the space provided.
 Check the test questions and number of exam paper.
 Wait for the direction and any corrections that will be given by your proctor.
 NO PERMIT, NO COMPLETE UNIFORM = NO EXAM

I. Identification. Identify the following question. Write your answer on the space
provided given before the no. AVOID ERASURES PLEASE. (20pts)

Adolescent Growth Nurture Proponents Passivity

Development
Cephalocaudal Decree No. 603 Maturation
Socioemotional Pattern
Processes Continuity
Development
Adolescere
Human
Child Development Biological
Learning Development
Processes
Nature Proponents Cognitive
Proximodistal
Pattern Discontinuity Processes
Activity

______________ 1. Defines as progressive series of changes of an orderly and coherent type toward the
goal of maturity.
______________ 2. Is the pattern of movement or change that begins at conception and continuous
through the life span.
______________ 3. It is the result of activities and experiences on the person himself
______________ 4. Believe that hereditary or biological inherence is the most important influence on
child development.
______________ 5. Include changes in the individual’s physical nature.
______________ 6. The development or unfolding traits potentially present in the individual considering
his hereditary endowment.
______________ 7. Is essentially define as quantitative changes in an individual as he progresses in
chronological age, and it may refer to increase in size, height or weight.
______________ 8. Views child as passive recipients of social and biological influences.
______________ 9. It refers to the biological, psychological, and emotional changes that happen in
human beings between birth and the end of adolescence.
______________ 10. Adolescence comes from the Latin word “__________” meaning to grow maturity,
and it is also synonymous to “teenagers”.

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______________ 11. Include changes in the individual’s thought, intelligence, and language.
______________ 12. Views child actively involved in the developmental process.
______________ 13. It is the transitional period between puberty and adulthood in human development.
______________ 14. During infancy, the greatest growth always occurs at the top – the head – with
physical growth in size, weight and future differentiation gradually working its way
down from top to bottom.
______________ 15. The muscular control of the trunk and the arms comes earlier as compared to the
hands and fingers.
______________ 16. Theorists view development that involves gradual cumulative change from
conception to death.
______________ 17. Believe that environmental experiences are essential in child development.
______________ 18. Presidential Decree ___________ dated December 10, 1974 provides the list of
Rights of Children and Young Persons.
______________ 19. Theorists view development that involves distinct stages in life span.
______________ 20. Include changes in the individual’s relationships with other people, changes in
emotions, and changes in personality.

II. Essay. Briefly answer the following questions. Write your answers on the space
provided at the back of the paper. (20pts)

1.) What is the most important influence on child development and growth Hereditary Inherence or
Environmental Experiences? Justify your answer. (10pts.)

2.) Why is that maturation and learning are inextricably intertwined? (5pts.)

3.) Why is it said that Development can be positive or negative? (5pts.)

Prepared by: Checked by:

Mr. Julius Noel C. Damaso Maximino M. Baltazar,Ed.D
Instructor College Dean & Education

“As human beings, we all mature physically from childhood to adolescence and then
into adulthood, but our emotions lag behind.” - Bernard Sumner